PE Course 1 · Week 3 · Moving With Purpose
Five Components, My Way
Students move through stations for cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance, and flexibility and privately note which ones energize them and which feel hard, without comparing to anyone.
- Students will
- Students take part in stations for cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance, and flexibility and privately note which components energize them and which feel hard.
- SEL skill
- Use feelings of energy or dread as clues about my fitness preferences
- What it looks like
- Students use their emotions as information to choose how to keep challenging themselves.
- Content focus
- Five components of fitness
- Format
- Think write pair share
Self-awareness
Self-awareness means noticing your own emotions, thoughts, values, and strengths and seeing how they shape what you do. More self-awareness activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- C1.2.2: High School Course 1, Standard 2 (Physical Fitness), item 2.2
- Student page: PE journal page
- SHAPE America (national): 2.12.8 Designs and implements a plan that applies knowledge of aerobic, strength and endurance, and flexibility training exercises.
More self-awareness activities for PE Course 1
- Who Am I as a Mover? Self-awarenessStudents rotate through a movement sampler of jogging, dancing, throwing, and balancing stations, then journal about which movements feel most like them and why.
- Reading My Heart Rate Self-awarenessStudents take their pulse at rest, after a jog, and after slow breathing, then journal how heart rate and feelings rise and fall together.
- Nerves and Performance Self-awarenessStudents attempt a target throw once calmly and once under a loud countdown, then analyze how nerves changed their focus and technique.
- Dance as Self Expression Self-awarenessSmall groups build an eight count sequence that expresses a feeling of their choice and journal how movement can say what words cannot.
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RoseThread Connect activities are drafted with the help of AI and shaped by educators. Students never have to share anything personal. Our five SEL skills are informed by CASEL's SEL Framework; RoseThread Learning is not affiliated with or endorsed by CASEL.